The old Coroner’s Court and Mortuary on Ladywell Road is one of four council owned sites that Lewisham has decided are surplus non-strategic assets and…
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“We are here for everybody” – Lewisham Plus credit union supports and serves financial needs of community
by Tony“We are here for everybody – we don’t cherry pick our customers like the banks,” says Liam Carlisle, one of the founding members of the…
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Mike Guilfoyle 1955-2023 – the engaging conversationalist with a deep knowledge of military history and criminal justice
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, a local historian, writer, podcaster, longtime supporter of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries and inveterate taphophile was an enthusiastic and prolific…
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The Greenwich astronomer who used plaster models of the lunar surface to illustrate his influential book on the moon
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, a member of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, recalls the life of Greenwich astronomer James Carpenter who wrote an influential book…
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Mike Guilfoyle, a member of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, on the life of a Bengal Lancer who died aged 29 after playing…
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Ladywell’s link to the stormy politics of 1840s Germany – Ida Melos, favourite of Goethe and the wife of poet Ferdinand Freiligrath, a long time friend of Karl Marx
by TonyLocated aside the outer pathway in Ladywell cemetery, nestled between two larger headstones lies the cruciform edifice of Ida Melos final resting place, inscribed with…
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Harry Hutchens, the ‘Usain Bolt of the Victorian era’ who was undefeated for 15 years
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, a member of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, ran marathons in his youth. But he could never match the speed of…
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Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr, Stalin’s favourite linguist and his link with Ladywell
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, a member of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, finds a Ladywell connection to a Scottish-Georgian professor who had a class theory…
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Portrait of an artist … the son of a samurai who lived in Lewisham, studied at Goldsmith’s and enjoyed Bohemian London
by TonyMike Guilfoyle, a member of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, stumbles upon a painting by a prolific Japanese artist who lived in Lewisham…
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Mike Guilfoyle, vice-chair of the Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, finds a Ladywell link to the saccharine pleasures of a Fry’s Turkish Delight bar.…